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Is the 85ps FIAT 500 TwinAir a real alternative to the 500 1.4?
I want to buy a FIAT 500 and decided that the 100PS 1.4 engine should provide the kind of performance I am looking for. FIAT has now produced the 85PS 'TwinAir'. Should I consider this, as FIAT claim, as a serious alternative to a 1.4? The car will do about 6,000 miles a year and I calculate that the TwinAir could save me somewhere in the region of £330 per year in fuel costs.
Asked on 27 October 2010 by MC, via email
Answered by
Honest John
Test and video at: www.honestjohn.co.uk/road-tests/fiat/fiat-500-twin...r. It's VED and Congestion tax exempt, but Autocar’s test showed it is nothing like as fuel efficient in real life as in the EC certification tests. The reason is, it won’t run at low revs. You need third in a 30, whereas my older 500 1.2 is very happy to run in fifth in a 30. I’m hoping to take one on an extended test to see if economy improves substantially on a long run and can match or even beat that of my 500 1.2 petrol.
Real MPG enables you to register the fuel economy you are actually getting against your make and model of car, its engine and type of transmission.
Every time you enter an average consumption figure against your car, the overall average automatically adjusts to reflect it.
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